The Russell Brand Scandal + The Fixing The Police | Pod Save the UK

Описание: In the wake of the allegations of rape and sexual assault against Russell Brand, Nish says his behaviour was an open secret, and Brand’s TV work dried up as people refused to work with him. Nish also reveals that there are others still working in the industry about whom production staff will say “oh we don’t send young women into their dressing rooms”. Coco highlights the wider cultural issues that lead to women feeling unsafe in the workplace and also unwilling to report assaults to the police.

Six months on from Dame Louise Casey’s damning report into the Metropolitan Police, we ask what progress has been made? Former Met Superintendent, Leroy Logan, tells Nish and Coco it’s not a case of a few bad apples, but of the “whole barrel’ being rotten. He also has some stinging criticism for Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Despite everything however, he says he’d still encourage his grandchildren to join the force.

You won’t be surprised to find that Nish’s villain of the week is a certain ‘lettuce adjacent’ politician, but you may be surprised by Coco’s hero…Danish artist Jens Haaning. Plus Coco steals Nish’s seat, and Nish poses the question; what’s your favourite Beck album?

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Guest:
Dr Leroy Logan MBE, former Met Police superintendent, and former Chairman of the National Black Police Association.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Pre-titles
0:36 Coco’s good side
3:48 Sunak’s green retreat
4:51 Starmer and Macron
6:00 Odelay by Beck
6:20 Boris and The Queen
6:33 Wales puts the breaks on
7:20 The Russell Brand Scandal
7:50 Clip from Channel 4’s Dispatches programme
13:08 “There are still people working in comedy who we can’t name”
14:33 Systemic failures
19:14 Conspiracy rhetoric
23:56 Ad break
25:06 Dame Louise Casey review - 6 months on
25:37 Clip of Louise Casey
27:29 Guest: LEROY LOGAN, former Met superintendent and author
28:00 Clip from Red, White and Blue (BBC1)
33:01 Suella Braverman is a dangerous person
35:25 White supremacy in the police
41:00 Is Sir Mark Rowley fit for the job?
52:23 Sarah Everard protest
53:20 Child Q scandal
56:10 Hero of the week: Jens Haaning
58:35 Villain of the week: Liz Truss
01:00:00 The PSUK mailbag

Useful links:
In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support for rape and sexual abuse on 0808 802 9999 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland.
In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673.
In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732).
Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html

Leroy Logan’s charity: https://www.voyageyouth.com/

Video credits:
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches (Channel 4/Hardcash Productions)
Red, White and Blue (Small Axe Films Ltd/BBC)
BBC News

Image credits:
Associated Press
Jack Hill
Sabsay Gallery
Ritzau Scanpix

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